Two discourses of the objects, pleasures and advantages, I. of science: II. of political science / By Henry Lord Brougham.

  • Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Date:
1846
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    by a political party who turned to their own per- sonal advantage the greatest injury they could in- flict upon their country.—The most unfortunate and impolitic ‘war ever waged by this country was popular in the extreme at first ; and no minister could have stood up against the supremacy of the mother-country over thirteen colonies, while all the ignorant members of the community believed that they had an interest in levying taxes by force from the American colonies in aid of the mother-country. —Nor is it any diminution of the evils which are produced by want of political knowledge, that wars, in themselves just and necessary, may at first be favoured by the people, and then abandoned at a time when the best interests of the state require them to be persevered in. An unreflecting, be- cause an uninformed, nation is at all times liable to commit this error, than which none can be greater excepting that most grievous of all faults, the rushing into a contest without cause. 5. It may be said that there is this peculiar to a course of political instruction, that many of the principles explained in it are those which the ex- isting parties in the state are at the time appealing to, and disputing about,—many of the illustrations used in expounding those principles are the very topics of most vehement discussion among the prac- tical statesmen and factions of theday. The whole subject, it may be argued, is more or less contro-